when you restore with macrium, it must be removing the Reserve partition...
Disk 1 still looks the same as in post 1

OP:If you clean install 10 on a blank ssd with no other drive attached, then you can restore C drive partition ONLY, it should work fine. No need to fix windows boot problems. Then you can delete partitions on disk 2.

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Originally Posted by Kyhi when you restore with macrium, it must be removing the Reserve partition...
Disk 1 still looks the same as in post 1

All I restored was the C: partition, nothing else. Why would Macrium remove the reserved partition? Any way around this that allows me to back up and restore my C: drive so I don't have to go through a complete setup of all software and tweaks?
I wonder if using a different backup/restore program would work?

Originally Posted by cereberus

OP:If you clean install 10 on a blank ssd with no other drive attached, then you can restore C drive partition ONLY, it should work fine. No need to fix windows boot problems. Then you can delete partitions on disk 2.

I did that.

1. Created a Macrium backup of C:
2. Powered down and disconnected the two hard drives leaving just the SSD.
3. Clean installed Win 10 Pro X64, deleting all partitions on the SSD and starting the install to an unallocated SSD.
4. Restored C: from backup then ran fix windows boot problems in Macrium. If I don't do this, it doesn't boot.
5. Reconnected two hard drives.

Results as shown. I didn't capture an EaseUS screen of the SSD before the restore, should have. If I get ambitious I'll try it again.

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OK. thanks - sorry, I meant more like when you first clean install (if you do that) and also a little bit because I don't know easeus and wasn't sure it would show an MSR (but I shouldn't be that skeptical).

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